The Waterhead Who Was Raised In A Box
Edition of 125, plus A/P and P/P
In 1992, Idavid Graficks was honored the opportunity to screen print the Robert Williams image "The Waterhead Who Was Raised In A Box". It took a 144 screen print color runs (and proofings) of hand-separated stencils, a 7.3 Landers Earthquake and thousands of aftershocks, screen printing through desert summer nights (no cooling at that time) to achieve what is traditionally called a "masterpiece".
Already fine art screenprinting for twenty years, Idavid Graficks was up for the task of showing the world "we can screen print" and providing an image worthy of Robert Williams ( http://www.robtwilliamsstudio.com/ ).
Below are the "progressive proofs of edition production ", image details of the Waterhead screenprint and a short youtube video of Artist Robert Williams, Publisher Ed Boswell and Ida and David of Idavid Graficks.
Idavid Graficks was so careful in the monstrous production of this screen print image, the cautionary "extra one sheet per color of edition" remaining number had to be handled as a sub-Green Edition, as seen below in the progressives. The edition printing took about two years ( minus two months of wet winter where we just had to wait at color run # 80 due to register conditions and other assorted setbacks), just in time for all those "Giclees" to hit the market. We waited. Years. The Waterhead Edition screen print was released in March of 2010 and after much preparation for duplicate printing conditions of 1994, the Green Edition was very carefully screen printed in 2012 with two green glazes of two pain-staking stencils. Done.
Already fine art screenprinting for twenty years, Idavid Graficks was up for the task of showing the world "we can screen print" and providing an image worthy of Robert Williams ( http://www.robtwilliamsstudio.com/ ).
Below are the "progressive proofs of edition production ", image details of the Waterhead screenprint and a short youtube video of Artist Robert Williams, Publisher Ed Boswell and Ida and David of Idavid Graficks.
Idavid Graficks was so careful in the monstrous production of this screen print image, the cautionary "extra one sheet per color of edition" remaining number had to be handled as a sub-Green Edition, as seen below in the progressives. The edition printing took about two years ( minus two months of wet winter where we just had to wait at color run # 80 due to register conditions and other assorted setbacks), just in time for all those "Giclees" to hit the market. We waited. Years. The Waterhead Edition screen print was released in March of 2010 and after much preparation for duplicate printing conditions of 1994, the Green Edition was very carefully screen printed in 2012 with two green glazes of two pain-staking stencils. Done.
Edition of 75, plus A/P and P/P
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Devil in the Details
When this Serigraph was finally released in March of 2010, there was much talk all about WaterHead, but few actually have seen this print in person. The image is 24" by 28.5" so a three foot by four foot monitor and a huge scan file might begin to do it justice. Short of that, here's a number of assorted details of the image for art collectors, fine art print collectors, fellow screenprinters, Robert Willaims afcianados and the like to show why this screenprint took 144-146 colors. Click on detail photo for larger version. Remember, all hand-separated...Bon appetite.
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